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Bringing Health Home: Revisiting North Horr, Kenya

Bringing Health Home: Revisiting North Horr, Kenya

In the last 12 months, the One Health units run through the HEAL project in northern Kenya have been busier than they ever anticipated....

Health and Climate change Water and disease prevention
Going further with Community Health Workers

Going further with Community Health Workers

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are effective and impactful, but their impact depends on many factors beyond training and capacity. Her...

health worker training
What is a One Health approach?

What is a One Health approach?

Animal, human, and environmental health are connected; Dr Aneesa Ahmed, Head of Programmes and Strategic Partnerships, Amref UK discuss...

Health and Climate change Health innovations Disease prevention
“When we cut a girl, we cut her future short”

“When we cut a girl, we cut her future short”

Jane Nkotai has turned her personal struggle against FGM/C - from running 60km through the night to safety from the cut to living as a...

Kenya Women and girls End FGM/C
What do people-centred interventions to end TB look like?

What do people-centred interventions to end TB look like?

‘People-centred interventions’ is used a lot to describe what we do in programmes. But what does this actually mean?

Health innovations Disease prevention Tanzania
Understanding the Mpox Virus in Africa: Challenges, Solutions and Amref’s Response

Understanding the Mpox Virus in Africa: Challenges, Solutions and Amref’s Response

Amref public health experts on the current state of the mpox crisis, the challenges it poses, and how Amref is working to raise awarene...

Disease prevention Kenya Emergency response
Four myths slowing down end TB efforts

Four myths slowing down end TB efforts

Stigma is a significant barrier to ending TB. Here’s how we’re fighting TB stigmas in Zanzibar.

Health innovations Tanzania Healthworkers and training
Safe water and nutrition support for IDPs in Ethiopia

Safe water and nutrition support for IDPs in Ethiopia

Amref, with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, is providing nutrition support and improving the supply of safe drinking water for Intern...

WASH Women and girls Ethiopia Emergency response
The success stories after fistula surgery

The success stories after fistula surgery

Amref's obstetric fistula programme in Tanzania and Uganda has completed 244 successful surgeries over five years.

Women and girls Tanzania Uganda

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